We sat in sun

 We sat in sun

We sat in sun, improbably warm 

February, sipping summer 

looking for chooks gone roaming. 

Then lunch and through the window all the long chain 

lovely- distant mountains shone. 

So all that afternoon, noon til curfew

we talked of books and films and family 

our preferences and pasts. 

After isolation, separation, gathered only virtually

not real 

how glad we were for lunch, lovingly prepared 

and friends carefully together,

laughing in the sun. 

18th February 2021, Hounoux, for Ros and Andy